As I am producing a horror teaser trailer it will not feature a vast amount of speech particuarly towards the end of the trailer, however I have made a script for the speech which will be featured in the trailer. This is the original script in which I would have given to the original characters.
The group of friends named Rebecca, Jasmine, Abbey, Sophie and Ellie have all received their A-Level results at college.
Lizzie: (Whilst jumping up and down with excitement) I'm so happy, I never thought i'd do that well!
Ellie: (Smiling) I can't believe it!
All: (Cheering and laughing)
Lizzie: Lets celebrate tonight!
The group of friends are heading into the woods.
Lizzie: (After taking a swig from a bottle) Lets make tonight a night to remember!
Lizzie has received an unusual text
Jodie: What's the matter with you?
Lizzie: (Wary voice) Umm...er nothing...just some idiot who thinks they're funny
The girls are fairly drunk and getting into the party spirit
All: (Laughing and shouting)
Lizzie and Holly seperate from the group
Lizzie: Urgh, how annoying! (Waving her phone in the air, attempting to find a signal)
Ellie: Come on, we'll try and find a signal elsewhere
Lizzie is alone and frightened in the heart of the woods
Lizzie: (heavy breathing and crying)
Lizzie is alone in her bathroom
Lizzie: (confused and shaken) W...what is happening to me!
Screams are heard throughout the fast pace editing shots at the end of the trailer.
Lizzie is being chased through the wood
Lizzie: (Shouting) Please no!
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Original Prop list
- A tent
- Ketchup
- Empty alcohol bottles and cigarettes
- Scarfs, coats and hoodies
- Big bags
- Ripped tights
- A mirror
- Envelopes and paper (To represent the exam results)
Location list
We are going to use Cropton Park to replicate the woodland area in which Ellie will be walking to when travelling to college and home. Cropton Park has a well hidden forest like area which i think is ideal to use for the location of our trailer.
Elisha Sparkes' house will be used to replicate the bedroom scene in which Ellie is followed up by her stalker, our reasons for this is that Elisha's bedroom is located in the attic therefore the lighting and look is ideal for the character.
Both of these locations were going to be used in the original plot also.
Elisha Sparkes' house will be used to replicate the bedroom scene in which Ellie is followed up by her stalker, our reasons for this is that Elisha's bedroom is located in the attic therefore the lighting and look is ideal for the character.
Both of these locations were going to be used in the original plot also.
Cast list
I have decided to add what each individual character would bring to the trailer, the original cast list would have featured:
Jodie Braithwaite - Jodie would have played the outgoing character in the group, from research I have come to realise that there is always a strong, confident individual who often makes the decisions!
Elizabeth Morgan - Elizabeth would have played the 'geeky' friend, who is fairly quiet however makes valid points when needed.
Kaylee Murphy - The loyal friend, I have noticed that in many horror films there is a character who is the friend who always plays safely.
Holly Robinson - As i am blonde haired, I would have played the stereotypical 'dumb blonde' member in the friendship group. This would have featured myself being killed off first, as this would have been viewed as stereotypically correct.
Both Elisha Stewart and Hannah Mason I would have used to make up numbers in the group, as they would have made the group look strong and all good friends.
The stalker will not be revealed! As this is a teaser trailer I think this adds extra tension and suspense to the trailer, the stalker will be created by the use of point of view shots.
However as I have adjusted the plot of my trailer to just one main character better known as Ellie who will be played by myself Holly Robinson, this will be the only character featured in the trailer.
Ellie will be featured having blonde hair so that it projects to the audience her stereotypical image of being naive, my reasons for choosing my main character to have these characteristics is that by analysing other horror genre trailers and also by watching several horror films many of the leading characters are blonde and they are perceived in this way, therefore I have put these ideas into use for my final production.
Jodie Braithwaite - Jodie would have played the outgoing character in the group, from research I have come to realise that there is always a strong, confident individual who often makes the decisions!
Elizabeth Morgan - Elizabeth would have played the 'geeky' friend, who is fairly quiet however makes valid points when needed.
Kaylee Murphy - The loyal friend, I have noticed that in many horror films there is a character who is the friend who always plays safely.
Holly Robinson - As i am blonde haired, I would have played the stereotypical 'dumb blonde' member in the friendship group. This would have featured myself being killed off first, as this would have been viewed as stereotypically correct.
Both Elisha Stewart and Hannah Mason I would have used to make up numbers in the group, as they would have made the group look strong and all good friends.
The stalker will not be revealed! As this is a teaser trailer I think this adds extra tension and suspense to the trailer, the stalker will be created by the use of point of view shots.
However as I have adjusted the plot of my trailer to just one main character better known as Ellie who will be played by myself Holly Robinson, this will be the only character featured in the trailer.
Ellie will be featured having blonde hair so that it projects to the audience her stereotypical image of being naive, my reasons for choosing my main character to have these characteristics is that by analysing other horror genre trailers and also by watching several horror films many of the leading characters are blonde and they are perceived in this way, therefore I have put these ideas into use for my final production.
Monday, 16 November 2009
Synopsis
The title of the film trailer will be called 'The Hunted' which will therefore be a horror teaser trailer based on a stalker.
Originally the horror trailer was going to feature a group of six friends who venture out into a local forest to celebrate their A-Level results, little do the group realise that they are alone in the forest with an extra individual...their stalker who has been watching them. One by one each of the characters dissapear, and one survives. However I came to realise that this idea would be very difficult gathering all six characters together at the same time and also the plot became fairly complicated, therefore i have adjusted the synopsis.
The title of the film trailer has remained the same 'The Hunted' as the trailer is going to be based around a stalker and one female character, therefore the title of the film can then be assoiciated with the plot.
There will be one character who is named Ellie, Ellie will be featured blonde in the trailer as by using my secondary research and watching several horror films the blonde female character is often seen as very vulnerable and in many cases naive, therefore Ellie will be featured walking through a forest alone to and from her way to college...this will represent her naive characteristic and perhaps her stereotypical outlook. Ellie will be watched by her stalker who has been watching her every move throughout the week, to project this to the audience several days of the week such as 'Monday' will appear in text in the trailer to represent the time to the audience.
The first day which will be Monday will feature Ellie walking through the forest, Wednesday will see Ellie become slightly suspicious and wary as she hears movement and can feel the sense that someone is possibly watching her. Friday will see Ellie being followed home, by this time Ellie is aware that something is not right and her stalker will follow her home. As Ellie's parents have gone away for the weekend she is home alone, Ellie sits in her bedroom terrified and finally becomes face to face with her stalker, this will leave the audience in suspense and end on a cliffhanger.
Originally the horror trailer was going to feature a group of six friends who venture out into a local forest to celebrate their A-Level results, little do the group realise that they are alone in the forest with an extra individual...their stalker who has been watching them. One by one each of the characters dissapear, and one survives. However I came to realise that this idea would be very difficult gathering all six characters together at the same time and also the plot became fairly complicated, therefore i have adjusted the synopsis.
The title of the film trailer has remained the same 'The Hunted' as the trailer is going to be based around a stalker and one female character, therefore the title of the film can then be assoiciated with the plot.
There will be one character who is named Ellie, Ellie will be featured blonde in the trailer as by using my secondary research and watching several horror films the blonde female character is often seen as very vulnerable and in many cases naive, therefore Ellie will be featured walking through a forest alone to and from her way to college...this will represent her naive characteristic and perhaps her stereotypical outlook. Ellie will be watched by her stalker who has been watching her every move throughout the week, to project this to the audience several days of the week such as 'Monday' will appear in text in the trailer to represent the time to the audience.
The first day which will be Monday will feature Ellie walking through the forest, Wednesday will see Ellie become slightly suspicious and wary as she hears movement and can feel the sense that someone is possibly watching her. Friday will see Ellie being followed home, by this time Ellie is aware that something is not right and her stalker will follow her home. As Ellie's parents have gone away for the weekend she is home alone, Ellie sits in her bedroom terrified and finally becomes face to face with her stalker, this will leave the audience in suspense and end on a cliffhanger.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Audience Research
To create the teaser trailer we needed to establish which age range would our specific genre (horror) appeal too, therefore I created a questionnaire to guide me into doing this.
The questionnaire asks the participant to state their sex, age and favourite film genre.
The questionnaire asks the participants to state their sex, age and favourite film genre.
In the questionnaire we can see that the horror and comedy genre are very popular, however the horror genre is in particular popular with teengaers and young adults.
As I had already decided in which genre I was going to be using in my genre it has helped me in deciding the age range of the characters in the trailer as this will appeal to teenagers/young adults. Therefore I will feature teenagers in my final product as my target audience will be able to engage with the final product.
I also noticed that comedy was popular, often horror can be mixed with horror to create horror and humour, however I am sticking with the horror genre.
To perhaps improve the validity of the questionnaire I could have used a larger sample such as a 1000 participants, therefore this would have provided a valid and representative sample.
The questionnaire asks the participant to state their sex, age and favourite film genre.The questionnaire asks the participants to state their sex, age and favourite film genre.
In the questionnaire we can see that the horror and comedy genre are very popular, however the horror genre is in particular popular with teengaers and young adults.
As I had already decided in which genre I was going to be using in my genre it has helped me in deciding the age range of the characters in the trailer as this will appeal to teenagers/young adults. Therefore I will feature teenagers in my final product as my target audience will be able to engage with the final product.
I also noticed that comedy was popular, often horror can be mixed with horror to create horror and humour, however I am sticking with the horror genre.
To perhaps improve the validity of the questionnaire I could have used a larger sample such as a 1000 participants, therefore this would have provided a valid and representative sample.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Genre - Horror
Horror is intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. It is created to invoke our hidden worst fears in often a shocking and terrifying finale. Horror films center on the dark side of life, the forbidden and strange events which can occur.
Horror films go as far back as 100 years and were often created as very gothic in style this could be better known as the gothic/horror genre, this was usually set in spooky old castles and mansions. Their main characters were generally supernatural creatures ranging from creatures such as zombies, vampires, devils, mad scientists for example 'Frankenstein', evil spirits and many more. It was in the early 1930s that American film producers particuarly Universal Pictures that popularized the horror film bringing to the screen the likes of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein', some of these blended together science fiction with gothic horror, these films were simply designed to thrill. Universal's horror films continued into the 1940s with the film 'The Wolfman', this wasn't the first werewold film but was agreed to be the most influential. Throughout this decade Universal continued to produce more sequals to the Frankstein series. However in the 1950s-1960s the advances in technology that had occured the tone of the horror films had shifted from the gothic genre towards what people saw as more relevant to the current time era, a stream of productions featured humanity overcoming threats from 'outside' such as alien invasions and deadly mutations to people.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, production companies focused on producing horror films, including the British company Hammer Film Productions. Hammer enjoyed a vast amount of success from full-blooded technicolor films involving classic horror characters in films such as 'The curse of Frankenstein', 'Dracula' and 'The mummy' and many other sequels. During the 1960s Ghosts and Monsters still remained popular, however in 1968 the film 'Night of the living dead' which featured Zombies was deemed as being cultural, historically or aesthetically significant. Blending the psychological insights with gore moved the genre even further away from the gothic horror trends which were first brought about with horror, this therefore brought horror into everyday life. Gore-shock films were also very popular such as 'Blood feast' which featured splattering bloody and bodily disemberment.
With the financial success of the gore films from previous years the 1970s started referencing the occult this often featured gory horror films with sexual overtones. This led to films such as the 'Exorcist', many similar films contained a Devil who represented the supernatural evil which was often done by inpregnating women or possessing young children. Evil children and reincarnation became very popular subjects, also Satan became the villian in many horror films however with a postmodern style. Also in the 1970s the horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, Stephen Speilberg also shot to fame in 1975 with his creation of the deadly shark 'JAWS' this film kicked off a wave of killer animal stories. 'JAWS' is often credited as being one of the first films to use elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.
The 1980s were marked by the growing popularity of horror movie sequels, for example in 1892 'Poltergeist' was followed by two sequels and a television sequel. The successful supernatural slasher 'A Nightmare on Elm street' was seen as the popular face for horror films in that era. Another trend which begun in the 1980s was the involvement of comedy elements, many of which were 'one-liner' punchlines, such films which included this were 'An American werewolf in London' and 'Fright night'. Despite the huge demand for horror films there were many which were seen as extremely controversial such as the film 'Nekromantik' which was a disturbing film about the life and death of a necrophiliac, also the growth in home video led to growing public awareness of horror films and the concern of the availability of such material to children. Many films were branded as "video nasties" and banned an example would be 'Silent night' and 'Deadly night' which was was withdrawn and failed at the theatres as the subject was about a killer Santa Claus.
In the first half of the 1990s, the genre from the '80s continued. Sequels from the 'Chucky-Childs play' had some commercial success however was also very controversial as it was linked to the murder of the young child James Bulger, the ten year old boy's who had killed James had apparently previously viewed these sequels and caused the certificate of the film to increase to age 15 certificate. Among the popular English-language horror films of the late 1990s, only late 1999s surprise independent hit 'The Blair Witch Project' attempted staight-ahead scares.
The start of the 2000s was a quiet period for the genre. The re-stored version of the 'Exorcist' was a success even though it had been available on home video for years. 'Final Destination' marked a successful revival of clever, teen-centered horror and spawned three sequels. A new trend had been set which first appeared in 'The others' which had required psychology to scare the audiences instead of gore. One of the larger trends was the return of extreme, graphic violence. An extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering and violent deaths with films such as 'Saw' and 'Hostel'. Remakes of the late 1970s horror films became routine in the 2000s, such as the 2003's remake of 'The texas Chainsaw massacre', in 2007 Rob Zombie wrote and directed a remake of John Carpenter's 'Halloween'.
Therefore we can see in each decade there has been specific trends and significant changes in the horror genre.
Sources used www.wikipedia.com
Horror films go as far back as 100 years and were often created as very gothic in style this could be better known as the gothic/horror genre, this was usually set in spooky old castles and mansions. Their main characters were generally supernatural creatures ranging from creatures such as zombies, vampires, devils, mad scientists for example 'Frankenstein', evil spirits and many more. It was in the early 1930s that American film producers particuarly Universal Pictures that popularized the horror film bringing to the screen the likes of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein', some of these blended together science fiction with gothic horror, these films were simply designed to thrill. Universal's horror films continued into the 1940s with the film 'The Wolfman', this wasn't the first werewold film but was agreed to be the most influential. Throughout this decade Universal continued to produce more sequals to the Frankstein series. However in the 1950s-1960s the advances in technology that had occured the tone of the horror films had shifted from the gothic genre towards what people saw as more relevant to the current time era, a stream of productions featured humanity overcoming threats from 'outside' such as alien invasions and deadly mutations to people.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, production companies focused on producing horror films, including the British company Hammer Film Productions. Hammer enjoyed a vast amount of success from full-blooded technicolor films involving classic horror characters in films such as 'The curse of Frankenstein', 'Dracula' and 'The mummy' and many other sequels. During the 1960s Ghosts and Monsters still remained popular, however in 1968 the film 'Night of the living dead' which featured Zombies was deemed as being cultural, historically or aesthetically significant. Blending the psychological insights with gore moved the genre even further away from the gothic horror trends which were first brought about with horror, this therefore brought horror into everyday life. Gore-shock films were also very popular such as 'Blood feast' which featured splattering bloody and bodily disemberment.
With the financial success of the gore films from previous years the 1970s started referencing the occult this often featured gory horror films with sexual overtones. This led to films such as the 'Exorcist', many similar films contained a Devil who represented the supernatural evil which was often done by inpregnating women or possessing young children. Evil children and reincarnation became very popular subjects, also Satan became the villian in many horror films however with a postmodern style. Also in the 1970s the horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, Stephen Speilberg also shot to fame in 1975 with his creation of the deadly shark 'JAWS' this film kicked off a wave of killer animal stories. 'JAWS' is often credited as being one of the first films to use elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.
The 1980s were marked by the growing popularity of horror movie sequels, for example in 1892 'Poltergeist' was followed by two sequels and a television sequel. The successful supernatural slasher 'A Nightmare on Elm street' was seen as the popular face for horror films in that era. Another trend which begun in the 1980s was the involvement of comedy elements, many of which were 'one-liner' punchlines, such films which included this were 'An American werewolf in London' and 'Fright night'. Despite the huge demand for horror films there were many which were seen as extremely controversial such as the film 'Nekromantik' which was a disturbing film about the life and death of a necrophiliac, also the growth in home video led to growing public awareness of horror films and the concern of the availability of such material to children. Many films were branded as "video nasties" and banned an example would be 'Silent night' and 'Deadly night' which was was withdrawn and failed at the theatres as the subject was about a killer Santa Claus.
In the first half of the 1990s, the genre from the '80s continued. Sequels from the 'Chucky-Childs play' had some commercial success however was also very controversial as it was linked to the murder of the young child James Bulger, the ten year old boy's who had killed James had apparently previously viewed these sequels and caused the certificate of the film to increase to age 15 certificate. Among the popular English-language horror films of the late 1990s, only late 1999s surprise independent hit 'The Blair Witch Project' attempted staight-ahead scares.
The start of the 2000s was a quiet period for the genre. The re-stored version of the 'Exorcist' was a success even though it had been available on home video for years. 'Final Destination' marked a successful revival of clever, teen-centered horror and spawned three sequels. A new trend had been set which first appeared in 'The others' which had required psychology to scare the audiences instead of gore. One of the larger trends was the return of extreme, graphic violence. An extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering and violent deaths with films such as 'Saw' and 'Hostel'. Remakes of the late 1970s horror films became routine in the 2000s, such as the 2003's remake of 'The texas Chainsaw massacre', in 2007 Rob Zombie wrote and directed a remake of John Carpenter's 'Halloween'.
Therefore we can see in each decade there has been specific trends and significant changes in the horror genre.
Sources used www.wikipedia.com
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